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A retrospective exhibition of the entire work of Hronis Botsoglu will be presented in the Museum of modern art in Athens from January 28^th until April 18^th 2010. The exhibition includes over 170 paintings, sculptures, illustrations, engravings and other works of the artist from his period from the 50s until now gathered from museums, galleries and private collections. Some of the most famous paintings from the period of the 60s and 70s from the series “Picture of a body” (1979 – 1993), “Pages of a magazine” (1980 – 1988), the monumental panel construction Nekia (1993 – 2000) and also his last series of paintings called “Relations” (2002 – 2008) will be presented.

Hronis Botsoglu is one of the most famous Greek artists of the postwar period. Typical for his works is the interest for the body and more specifically for the naked body. His works have the prints of the existentialist approach in painting. Through observation and contemplation of the world the artist develops an idea about it, which later he transfers on the canvas in the light of his emotion.

Emotional is also his approach when he paints self portraits or portraits of people close to him. The exhibition presented by the Museum of modern art is constructed around the typical for the art of Botsoglu motive – the human body and the idea about it. In different periods of his life he looks at the human body from completely different point of view. Often he shows his even negative attitude towards it and he is not afraid to present it in critical dimension.      The problems which Botsoglu refers to are the ones that affect each artist. He is interested in the eternal existential problems like uncertainty and vulnerability of the human life, the circle of life and death, the fear of transitivity, the role of the memory. In his works he also shows his attitude towards the natural art and its history.